Near-Death Experiences, Secret Missions, and Facing Mortality — Don Winner
Four Fs Podcast: Leadership, Entrepreneurship, & Reinvention | Stories From Founders|Veterans|Execs · 2026-02-26 · 2h 29m
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Military intelligence officer. Journalist for 48 Hours and Dateline. Don Winner has stared death in the face more than once. Don Winner has lived more lives than most people can imagine. Military intelligence officer. Investigative journalist for 48 Hours and Dateline NBC. Survival school graduate. He's faced death multiple times — and it changed everything about how he lives. In this gripping 2.5-hour conversation with Jeff Cluff, Don Winner shares the stories he's never told publicly: near-death experiences, classified missions, the psychology of survival, and why confronting your own mortality is the most freeing thing you'll ever do.